Hunter Biden has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I’m happy this stupid trial might be on its way out from the news headlines. It was utterly unimportant, but the media was trying to hype it as the mirror to Trump’s trial. Literally the only legitimate news story was Biden saying he wouldn’t pardon his son. That’s it. Everything else is just news organizations failing to resist rightwing manipulation and/or their deeply held belief in finding a “both sides” for every issue.

    • Catma@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Trump and every conservative mouth piece is going to bring this up constantly until the election. Example 1

    • mister_monster@monero.townEnglish
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      26 days ago

      I can think of 3 reasons why the journalists are interested in this.

      1. its saucy.

      2. Hunter Biden potentially learned how to be a man and inherited his character from his father

      3. the business dealings thing, they’re investigating whether Joe Biden peddled his influence as senator and VP to benefit his kids financially, that he used his family as proxy for his own dishonest dealings using his position of power, or something like that.

      For those 3 reasons I don’t think this story is going to go away Amy time soon.